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We don't view Buddha as just a historical figure, we view him as someone who exists in an eternal platonic realm and our goal should be to attain this Buddha nature. Atheistic Buddhists have no future because the tantric texts of Buddhism slams the views of atheistic and secular Buddhists explicitly.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

Of course it should be tolerated. What are we supposed to do? Picket buildings? Hold public meetings and denounce the heretics? We live in a secular, pluralistic society, in which there are no privileges for 'doctrinal purity'. It should certainly be rigorously criticized and shown to be deficient in some really basic ways. But it has to be tolerated, otherwise you're creating a rod for your own back.

Do you think Buddha had anything to say about any tantric deities? That came from pre-buddhist Tibet, so probably not! These are used to represent aspects of one's own mind, especially in the post-life Bardo visions, in the Book of the Dead, see?

Someone somewhere has misunderstood what buddhism was, I would guess

What does this have to do with toleration? Nothing at all. If someone wants to believe in some form of buddhism you don't agree with, what business is that of yours? Having a problem with it is a neurosis of your own, that you will need to work through and abandon if you are to make any progress in any buddhist path. Based on the Tibetan buddhism.

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Did the Lord Buddha tolerate the Brahmins? Did Padmasambhava tolerate Bon? Did the Buddhist minority tolerate Langdharma?

We must have compassion for those that would be led astray and confront and oppose secular, humanist, or whatever Buddhism wherever it is found. We must furthermore ignore the ostriches in our own ranks and their cries of 'pure vision' and 'modern society'. As Dzongsar Rinpoche says, we should look at the state of Hatha Yoga in the West and understand the lesson for us there and its warning.

"There is no disappearance of the true Dhamma as long as a counterfeit of the true Dhamma has not arisen in the world, but there is the disappearance of the true Dhamma when a counterfeit of the true Dhamma has arisen in the world. Just as there is no disappearance of gold as long as a counterfeit of gold has not arisen in the world, but there is the disappearance of gold when a counterfeit of gold has arisen in the world, in the same way there is no disappearance of the true Dhamma as long as a counterfeit of the true Dhamma has not arisen in the world, but there is the disappearance of the true Dhamma when a counterfeit of the true Dhamma has arisen in the world.

"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."

jeeprs wrote:Of course it should be tolerated. What are we supposed to do? Picket buildings? Hold public meetings and denounce the heretics? We live in a secular, pluralistic society, in which there are no privileges for 'doctrinal purity'. It should certainly be rigorously criticized and shown to be deficient in some really basic ways. But it has to be tolerated, otherwise you're creating a rod for your own back.

If they had tried to understand the eastern mind and how they view the world without distorting the doctrines of Buddhism and tried to learn things from us then it wouldn't have been a problem but they are annoying and no one laughs at them more than we do when they use our religion and preach to us as to what constitutes Buddhism.

The problem arises when they no longer respect traditional Buddhism and dogmatically assert and spread a false view of Buddhism and this shouldn't be tolerated.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

randomseb wrote:Do you think Buddha had anything to say about any tantric deities? That came from pre-buddhist Tibet, so probably not! These are used to represent aspects of one's own mind, especially in the post-life Bardo visions, in the Book of the Dead, see?

As I have said we don't see Buddha just as an historical figure. For us Buddha exists in an eternal realm and we have people who converse with him and Padmasambhava, also known as second Buddha introduced tantric Buddhism to Tibet and other far eastern regions and he obtained that knowledge from Adi Buddha himself.

Someone somewhere has misunderstood what buddhism was, I would guess

Yes, the secular Buddhists.

What does this have to do with toleration? Nothing at all. If someone wants to believe in some form of buddhism you don't agree with, what business is that of yours? Having a problem with it is a neurosis of your own, that you will need to work through and abandon if you are to make any progress in any buddhist path. Based on the Tibetan buddhism.

Anyone who has self-respect and anyone who knows what the truth of their own religion is will not tolerate a false view of their religion being spread everywhere. I have self-respect and I am quite convinced of my position on this.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

Samanthabhadra wrote:Anyone who has self-respect and anyone who knows what the truth of their own religion is will not tolerate a false view of their religion being spread everywhere. I have self-respect and I am quite convinced of my position on this.

That's exactly it. Humans defend things they care about. If people are unwilling to defend Buddhism, they don't care about Buddhism that much.

Equanimity is the ground. Love is the moisture. Compassion is the seed. Bodhicitta is the result.

"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."

Therefore you have the age old sickness of "my view is the right view, and all other views are flawed", I see. There is a deep danger in this kind of fundamentalist clinging to views. Remember the Four Noble Truths!

Perhaps you should read Padmasambhava's Tibetan book of the Great Liberation to get an idea of what his Buddhism was actually about and why this is not so good for you

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randomseb wrote:"my view is the right view, and all other views are flawed",

Of course and when all the evidence is on my side why the hell should I consider myself as sick and what should I be afraid of.

"Samantabhadra, the primordial Buddha whose nature is identical with the tathagatagarbha within each sentient being, is the ultimate ground of samsara and nirvana; and the entire universe consists of nothing other than displays of this infinite, radiant, empty awareness. Thus, in light of the theoretical progression from the bhavanga to the tathagatagarbha to the primordial wisdom of the absolute space of reality, Buddhism is not so simply non-theistic as it may appear at first glance."

—Dr. B. Alan Wallace, Buddhist Scholar

Perhaps you should read Padmasambhava's Tibetan book of the Great Liberation to get an idea of what his Buddhism was actually about and why this is not so good for you

Padmasambhava explicitly slams atheistic and secular Buddhists who don't accept a Buddhist cosmogony in their world view and falsely claim themselves as Buddhists. In my honest opinion they are not Buddhists. The evidence is on my side.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

Samanthabhadra wrote:We don't view Buddha as just a historical figure, we view him as someone who exists in an eternal platonic realm and our goal should be to attain this Buddha nature. Atheistic Buddhists have no future because the tantric texts of Buddhism slams the views of atheistic and secular Buddhists explicitly.

randomseb wrote:Do you think Buddha had anything to say about any tantric deities? That came from pre-buddhist Tibet, so probably not! These are used to represent aspects of one's own mind, especially in the post-life Bardo visions, in the Book of the Dead, see?

As I have said we don't see Buddha just as an historical figure. For us Buddha exists in an eternal realm and we have people who converse with him and Padmasambhava, also known as second Buddha introduced tantric Buddhism to Tibet and other far eastern regions and he obtained that knowledge from Adi Buddha himself.

"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."

Rebirth is not important, the eternal Buddha realm is not important and Buddha was an agnostic, these are some of the new age subsequent developments and you expect me to accept this view without ridiculing and criticizing it?

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

Fu Ri Shin wrote:I'd like to point out that while this topic's title is a question about tolerance, there is neither a single question nor a mention of tolerance in the original post.

Seems like this is an attempt at pushing a view rather than opening a discussion.

The first link in my OP sums up the topic of this thread quite beautifully and it needed no further explanation.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.

Rebirth is not important, the eternal Buddha realm is not important and Buddha was an agnostic, these are some of the new age subsequent developments and you expect me to accept this view without ridiculing and criticizing it?

Yes.

Equanimity is the ground. Love is the moisture. Compassion is the seed. Bodhicitta is the result.

"All memories and thoughts are the union of emptiness and knowing, the Mind.
Without attachment, self-liberating, like a snake in a knot.
Through the qualities of meditating in that way,
Mental obscurations are purified and the dharmakaya is attained."

Using Buddhism as a source of identification in order to further reify dualistic notions (I am right, you are wrong, I am a real Buddhist, you are a fake Buddhist, etc...)

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"My religion is not deceiving myself."Jetsun Milarepa 1052-1135 CE

"Butchers, prostitutes, those guilty of the five most heinous crimes, outcasts, the underprivileged: all are utterly the substance of existence and nothing other than total bliss."The Supreme Source - The Kunjed Gyalpo
The Fundamental Tantra of Dzogchen Semde

jeeprs wrote:Of course it should be tolerated. What are we supposed to do? Picket buildings? Hold public meetings and denounce the heretics? We live in a secular, pluralistic society, in which there are no privileges for 'doctrinal purity'. It should certainly be rigorously criticized and shown to be deficient in some really basic ways. But it has to be tolerated, otherwise you're creating a rod for your own back.

If they had tried to understand the eastern mind and how they view the world without distorting the doctrines of Buddhism and tried to learn things from us then it wouldn't have been a problem but they are annoying and no one laughs at them more than we do when they use our religion and preach to us as to what constitutes Buddhism.

The problem arises when they no longer respect traditional Buddhism and dogmatically assert and spread a false view of Buddhism and this shouldn't be tolerated.

There is an eastern mind ?

My name is Simon John Ellis. Husband of a Buddhist wife. Father of a Buddhist son. And I will have Enlightenment in this life or the next.

Yes, Asian thought is not positivistic, for us the mind and brain are two different things and our epistemology is different.

My father is the intrinsic awareness, Samantabhadra (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ). My mother is the ultimate sphere of reality, Samantabhadri (Sanskrit; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ). I belong to the caste of non-duality of the sphere of awareness. My name is the Glorious Lotus-Born. I am from the unborn sphere of all phenomena. I act in the way of the Buddhas of the three times.